Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland dad of a disabled U.S. citizen child and the spouse of a U.S. citizen, was abducted by the Trump administration and sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador even though he’d been granted protected status by a federal judge in 2019. In now removing him from the U.S., the Trump administration didn’t follow any process, Judd Legum notes in Popular information. “It just put Abrego Garcia on a plane.” It’s a stark example of why due process matters.
But despite the Trump administration admitting that the father was wrongfully separated from his family and deported to a gulag thousands of miles away, U.S. officials are refusing to bring him back and reunite him with his loved ones in the United States. Vice President JD Vance and other Trump officials are also trying to justify his wrongful deportation by falsely claiming he’s a “convicted” gang member. “This is a lie,” Legum continues.
The reaction to Garcia’s abduction and unjust detention by the Trump administration has been fierce. Public officials are also speaking out.
The Trump administration called it an “administrative error.” But that error led to a nightmare for Maryland Resident Abrego Garcia.
The Trump admin’s outrageous immigration overreaches result in situations like this one, where a protected resident & the father of an intellectually disabled American child has been mistakenly placed in a Salvadoran prison. This admin is recklessly & cruelly incompetent
This is as disturbing and dystopian as it gets. Trump disappeared a father—with protected legal status—to a torture prison in El Salvador, admitted he was sent there mistakenly, and now refuses to bring him back. This father must be brought home—there must be accountability.
The Trump Administration admitted it made a mistake deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, even though he had protected status in the United States and had no criminal record.
But they are refusing to take responsibility for this grave error and bring Mr. Garcia back home to the United States, where his wife and child are. They must do so now.
The Trump administration mistakenly abducted and deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a father who fled gang violence and has protected status, to an El Salvador mega-prison. Now they say they can’t get him back. I’m demanding they do.
This is as disturbing and dystopian as it gets. Trump disappeared a father—with protected legal status—to a torture prison in El Salvador, admitted he was sent there mistakenly, and now refuses to bring him back. This father must be brought home—there must be accountability.
Vice President Vance is lying to your face. https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html
JD Vance is lying. No court convicted this father of being in a gang. But now, he joins a growing list of innocent men condemned to a violent El Salvador prison. They call it an “error” – we know this evil was always part of their plan to make immigrant Americans live in fear.
This isn't a "clerical error"—it's systemic. Trump claims he's deporting criminals, but he's clearly just racially profiling people. He's deported a dad here legally on asylum & a 10-year-old US citizen recovering from cancer—how many others will he cruelly and recklessly
Abrego Garcia was in the U.S. LEGALLY and his wife and child are both U.S. citizens. Trump has admitted his deportation to a Salvadoran prison was an “administrative error.” The White House must end its cruel targeting of legal immigrants now.
Your lawyers admitted in federal court that ICE made an “error” by deporting an immigrant who lives in Maryland with no criminal record. This is a blatant violation of Due Process and the U.S. Constitution, which still governs here. And he was not your only “error.” https://t.co/HfQloPWrxI
Beyond horrifying.
Trump administration attorneys told the court to dismiss the request (to return Garcia to the U.S.) on multiple grounds, including that Trump’s “primacy in foreign affairs” outweighs the interests of Abrego Garcia and his family.
Clinton County Illinois Democrats
#incompetent
The Trump Administration admitted it made a mistake deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, even though he had protected status in the United States and had no criminal record.But they are refusing to take responsibility for this grave error and bring Mr. Garcia back home to the United States, where his wife and child are. They must do so now.
Maybe the Trump administration wouldn't be making "administrative errors" that ruin the lives of a man minding his own business and his family if they actually provided due process and obeyed the law? Outrageous. Lawless. Evil.
The Trump admin’s outrageous immigration overreaches result in situations like this one, where a protected resident and the father of an intellectually disabled American child has been mistakenly placed in a Salvadoran prison. This admin is recklessly and cruelly incompetent.
I agree with @JoeRogan. Everyone agrees that we should get violent criminals off our streets. But under Trump’s immigration orders, innocent people–including Americans who are here legally–have been detained & deported to foreign prisons. That’s outrageous and wrong. https://t.co/Zf02hhwZDf
The Trump Administration sent a legal Maryland resident to their Salvadoran “MAGAprison.” An immigration judge already ruled that sending him to El Salvador would violate U.S. law because of harm he’d face there. Donald Trump put a legal resident DIRECTLY in harm’s way.
Snatched, shackled, and shipped off to a Salvadoran prison, Marylander Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, an immigrant with no criminal record, was deported in what the Trump White House is calling an ‘error.’ Our full statement on this miscarriage of justice: https://t.co/4un618mpU7
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